WEBSITE T's&C's
1. This website, accessed at www.blinggirl.com (and/or related mobi-sites) ("the Website"), is owned and operated by Bling Girl Online (Proprietary) Limited (“Bling Girl”).
2. The terms and conditions as set out herein govern the use of this Website as well as the sale of Goods via this Website, including ordering processes, payment, delivery and any refunds in relation to such Goods ("Terms and Conditions").
3. By accessing and/or using the website, the User consents and agrees to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.
4. Bling Girl makes no warranty in relation to the use, availability or performance of this Website. Users acknowledge that the Website may be unavailable from time to time, with or without prior notice to Users.
5. Bling Girl (including its owners, directors, employees, suppliers, internet service providers, partners, affiliates, agents and/or representatives) shall not be liable for any damage, loss or liability of any nature incurred by accessing this Website, including but not limited to, access to or the inability to access any other websites linked to the Website, or loss or damage arising from content available on the Website.
6. Without derogating from the aforegoing, Bling Girl hereby authorises the User to view, copy, and/or download the content of this Website, or any part thereof, provided that:
0.1. such content is used for information and/or non-commercial purposes only; and
0.2. any reproduction of the said content of this Website, or portion thereof, must include a copyright notice indicating that the said content is owned by Bling Girl and that all Bling Girl’s rights therein are reserved.
7. Users that wish to use content from this site for commercial purposes may only do so with prior written consent of a Director of Bling Girl.
8. While Bling Girl does take all necessary steps to ensure the accuracy of the content and information on this Website, Bling Girl does not make any warranties or representations that such content and information shall in all cases be true, correct or free from any errors.
9. Bling Girl reserves the right to hold Users liable for any losses suffered by Bling Girl arising out of such Users’ misuse of this Website or the commission of cybercrime committed by the Users on or in relation to this Website.
10. By using the Website you warrant that you are 18 (eighteen) years of age or older and/or have full legal capacity to transact.
11. If you are under the age of 18 (eighteen) or if you are not legally permitted to enter into a binding agreement, then you may use the Website only under the supervision, and with the consent of, your parent and/or legal guardian.
12. The User understands and agrees that the information, including personal information as envisaged by the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013, provided in order to use and make purchases on this Website may be used and/or processed by Bling Girl for marketing and ancillary purposes, for risk and analytical evaluation and scoring and for the general purposes of Bling Girl’s business. More information in respect of the processing of personal information is available in Bling Girl’s Privacy Policy.
13. The parent or legal guardian of any person/s using this Website under supervision gives his/her consent and agrees to be bound to these Terms and Conditions and to be liable and responsible for the User and all the User’s obligations under these Terms and Conditions. Where transactions are performed under such supervision, any reference in these Terms and Conditions to a User, "you"/ "your" shall be references to such parent or legal guardian as the transacting party under these Terms and Conditions.
14. You agree to notify Bling Girl immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorised and/or fraudulent use of your credit card in respect of a purchase from the Website, or reasonably suspecting such unauthorized / fraudulent use, and agree that you shall take all reasonable steps to mitigate any resultant loss or harm.
15. You agree that you will not in any way use any device, software or other instrument to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website. In addition, you agree that you will not in any way use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor, copy, distribute or modify the Website or the information contained herein, without the prior written consent of an authorised representative of Bling Girl (such consent is deemed given for standard search engine technology employed by internet search websites to direct internet users to this Website).
16. You may not use the Website to distribute material which is defamatory, offensive, contains or amounts to hate speech or the incitement of violence or is otherwise unlawful.
17. You may not in any way display, publish, copy, print, post or otherwise use the Website and/or the information contained therein without the express prior written consent of a Director of Bling Girl.
18. Bling Girl may, in its absolute discretion, accept or reject any order/s placed via the Website.
19. Regardless of any communication from Bling Girl stating that your order and/or payment has been confirmed, an agreement of sale between you and Bling Girl is only concluded at the time of delivery of the goods to you (“the sale / the purchase").
20. If an order is cancelled for any reason, Bling Girl will indicate such cancellation, as soon as possible thereafter, by refunding to your bank account any amount already paid.
21. After delivery of the goods, you may cancel the sale only in accordance with the Bling Girl Returns Policy. Please see our Returns and Refunds Policy for further information.
22. Placing Goods in a shopping bag without completing the purchase transaction does not constitute an order for such goods, and as such, goods may be removed from the shopping bag if stock is no longer available, alternatively at Bling Girl’s discretion. Bling Girl shall not be liable if such goods are not available when you complete, or attempt to complete, the purchase at a later stage.
23. Stock of all items on offer is limited. We cannot guarantee the availability of stock. In the even that an item is no longer available after placing an order, you will be entitled to a refund of the amount paid by you for such item. In such an instance the refund shall be paid to you within 30 days.
24. Payment
24.1. This Website employs secure online payment facilities. Bling Girl has taken the necessary steps to ensure all Users’ security when utilizing the website, particularly in regard to payments. More information regarding payment security can be found in our Security Policy.
0.1. Payment can be made for goods via SnapScan, EFT, or credit or debit cards, provided that such debit card has a CVV security code. In certain instances, we may require additional information in order to authorise and/or verify the validity of a payment. In such instances we reserve the right to withhold delivery until such time as the additional information is received by us and authorisation is obtained by us for the amounts in question. If we do not receive the appropriate authorisation, your order for the goods will be cancelled. By making a purchase on the website you warrant that you are fully authorised to use the credit or debit card supplied for purposes of paying for the goods. You also warrant that your credit card has sufficient available funds to cover all the costs incurred as a result of the purchases and services used on the Website;
0.2. Bling Girl will not accept your order if payment has not been received;
0.3. Your sales invoice will be provided to you via email, together with your order confirmation.
26. Delivery of purchases made on the website shall be done in accordance with Bling Girl’s delivery policy. Please see our Delivery Policy for more detailed information.
27. All reasonable efforts shall be made to accurately reflect the description, availability, purchase price and delivery charges of goods on the Website. However, should there be any errors of whatsoever nature on the Website, we shall not be liable for any loss, claim or expense relating to a transaction based on any error, save, in the case of any incorrect purchase price, to the extent of refunding you for any amount already paid, or otherwise as set out in our Refund and Returns Policy.
28. Bling Girl reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to do any of the following, at any time without prior notice and without offering any reasons:
28.1. amend these Terms and Conditions;
28.2. amend the content available on the Website;
28.3. discontinue any particular part or aspect of the Website; and/or
28.4. change the software and/or hardware required to access and use the Website;
28.5. close and/or upgrade the Website.
29. Disclosures Required By Section 43 Of The Electronic Communications And Transactions Act No. 25 OF 2002:
29.1. The full name and legal status of the website owner is:
Bling Girl Online (Pty) Ltd, registration number: 2021/813239/07
29.2. The registered address of the website owner, as well as the address at which the website owner shall accept service of notices, is:
Unit D12, 12 Jupiter Road, Crown, Gauteng.
29.3. The electronic / “site” address for the website is www.blinggirl.com.
29.4. The Directors of Bling Girl are: Huan Tian.
29.5. The main function of this Website is to provide information and descriptions about Bling Girl and its retail and wholesale services and the products available for purchase. It also provides a facility for Users to purchase goods via the Website, including, but not limited to, cosmetics, nail products, make-up applicators, nail care tools and products, general female beauty products, etc.
SECURITY POLICY
1. Bling Girl takes all necessary steps to ensure the outmost security for users making purchases on our website.
2. Our website is hosted on a secure server. No data entered is transferred outside of the said server.
3. We use Standard Bank of South Africa to process all card payments made on our website.
4. All card transactions are 3D-Secure authenticated and PCI DSS compliant, for your protection. Standard Bank furthermore utilizes VerifiedByVisa and Mastercard SecureCode to further guard against fraudulent transactions.
5. Your card information will not be stored on our website or server once the purchase has been completed.
6. By making a purchase on the website you warrant that you are fully authorised to use the credit or debit card / bank account supplied for purposes of paying for the goods. You also warrant that your card and/or account has sufficient available funds to cover all the costs incurred as a result of the purchases and services used on the Website.
7. If you suspect that a fraudulent transaction has occurred on our website, please notify us immediately in order to mitigate potential damages and loss.
8. Payment can be made for goods via credit or debit cards, provided that such debit card has a CVV security code. In certain instances, we may require additional information in order to authorise and/or verify the validity of a payment. In such instances we reserve the right to withhold delivery until such time as the additional information is received by us and authorisation is obtained by us for the amounts in question. If we do not receive the appropriate authorisation, your order for the goods will be cancelled.
9. Our website allows for use of SnapScan to facilitate payments. However, we do not accept responsibility for any errors which may occur as a result of the use of the service. Your purchase will only be effective once the funds clear into our bank account.
10. In the event that the purchaser elects to make payment by way of Electronic Funds Transfer (“EFT”), the purchase will only be effective once funds clear into our bank account. We shall not be liable if the EFT is made into the incorrect bank account, or for any delays in respect of funds landing in our account.
PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: 30 September 2021
This Notice explains how we obtain, use and disclose your personal information, in accordance with the requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPIA”).
At Bling Girl (and including this website) we are committed to protecting your privacy and to ensure that your personal information is collected and used properly, lawfully and transparently.
This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the website, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your personal data to provide information which helps us improve our website. By using the Website, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for you to access our Website or parts of our Website.
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Bling Girl Online (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg South Africa.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: South Africa
- Device means any device that can access the Website such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Website refers to the Website.
- Website Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Website, to provide the Website on behalf of the Company, to perform functions related to the Website or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Website is used.
- Third-party Social Media Website refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Website.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- Website refers to Bling Girl, accessible from https://blinggirl.com/
- You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Website, We may ask you to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, Apartment, Suite, Flat No., Suburb, Province, Postal code, City
- Special instructions related to an order
- Bank account information in order to pay for products and/or websites within the Website if applicable
- Usage Data
When and if you pay for a product via bank transfer, we may ask you to provide information to facilitate this transaction and to verify Your identity. Such information may include, without limitation:
- Date of birth
- Passport or National ID Document
- Bank card statement
- Other information linking you to an address
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Website by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website or when you access the Website by or through a mobile device.
Information from Third-Party Social Media Websites
The Company allows you to create an account and log in to use the Website through the following Third-party Social Media Websites:
- Google
- Facebook
- Twitter
If you decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Website, we may collect Personal data that is already associated with your Third-Party Social Media Website's account, such as your name, your email address, your activities or your contact list associated with that account.
You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through your Third-Party Social Media Website's account. If you choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, you are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website. The technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Website may use Cookies.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or your activity on our Website. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close Your web browser.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with websites available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the websites that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide You with those websites.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
- Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
- Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:- To provide and maintain our Website, including to monitor the usage of our Website.
- To manage your Account: to manage your registration as a user of the Website. The Personal Data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Website that are available to you as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or goods you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Website.
- To contact You: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted websites, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, sales and promotions which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to Us.
- To deliver targeted advertising to you: We may use Your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
- For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes:
We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Website, products, marketing and your experience.
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Website Providers: We may share your personal information with Website Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website, to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Website, for payment processing, to contact you.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, websites or promotions.
- With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Website, your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Website may see your name, profile, pictures and description of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you and view your profile.
- With Your consent:
We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your written consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your suburb, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
By using the website you consent to this Privacy Policy, and such consent, followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Website or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Website Providers we use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Website providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.
-Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics website offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google websites. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web.
Email Marketing
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting Us.
We may use Email Marketing Website Providers to manage and send emails to you.
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or websites within the Website. In that case, we may use third-party websites for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Behavioral Remarketing
The Company uses remarketing websites to advertise to you after you accessed or visited our Website. We and our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help us recognize your Device and understand how you use our Website so that we can improve our Website to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to you.
These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable us to:
- Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our Website
- Show advertisements for our products and/or websites to you on third-party websites or apps
- Measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns
You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See your mobile device Help system for more information.
We may share information, such as hashed email addresses (if available) or other online identifiers collected on our Website with these third-party vendors. This allows our third-party vendors to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers.
Usage, Performance and Miscellaneous
We may use third-party Website Providers to provide better improvement of our Website.
- Invisible reCAPTCHA
We may use an invisible captcha website named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google.
The reCAPTCHA website may collect information from you and from your Device for security purposes.
The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google.
- Google Places
Google Places is a website that returns information about places using HTTP requests. It is operated by Google.
Google Places website may collect information from you and from your Device for security purposes.
The information gathered by Google Places is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google.
Children's Privacy
Our Website does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child / ward has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental / guardian consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or websites.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be made available by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a notice on Our Website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By email:
- By visiting this page on our website: https://blinggirl.com//contact